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This is true but no recall should come until he's at least in Yorkshire's top two bowlers and at present he's the fourth seamer / swing bowler there!

Not sure one should impose such a hard and fast rule like that without first taking into account the overall quality of Yorkshire's bowling attack.

As a guide to his standing in the Yorkshire attack, in terms of wickets taken this season, Bresnan is third, just a couple behind Patterson.

Given his experience and batting ability, and while he's still young enough, he really only has to be just about as good as those who have been tried recently and only Wood has really shown much promise.

Have to give him some serious respect as a batsman, scoring those runs against the attack of the league leaders.

Sure. But even Stuart Broad has a mammoth score to his name, at international level. Useful as it is, I still wouldn't expect Bresnan to score much very often and his bowling isn't good enough, unless England suffer a lot of injuries.

Not sure one should impose such a hard and fast rule like that without first taking into account the overall quality of Yorkshire's bowling attack.

As a guide to his standing in the Yorkshire attack, in terms of wickets taken this season, Bresnan is third, just a couple behind Patterson.

Given his experience and batting ability, and while he's still young enough, he really only has to be just about as good as those who have been tried recently and only Wood has really shown much promise.

We have a batsman at number 8 and a third seamer who has a bowling strike rate of 48.6 instead of 64.9.

According to George Dobell on Cricinfo the only dilemma for England is in the spin bowling department. If this is also the view of the selectors I will be quite dismayed. Gary Ballance has really struggled since he returned from the Caribbean and, as such, surely his place must be under scrutiny, even if it is only his place in the batting order? It's probably a moot point but if the choice of reserve seamer is between Liam Plunkett and Mark Footitt I would choose the latter in a heartbeat.

Bresnan is a good player. But we need to take 20 Aussie wickets to win a Test - our 4th seamer is erratic and should only be utilised in short bursts, our spinner is a (potential) weakness who is unlikely to run through sides. For all their positive attributes Stokes and Ali are not comparable as bowlers to Flintoff and Swann.
The 3rd seamer, therefore, will probably bowl a large number of overs and needs to be capable of bowling match winning spells, especially as Anderson seems (somebody will probably quote me stats disproving this, however......) to be increasingly reliant on the new ball to take wickets. Bresnan is not that man.